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			<h1>Flash mob and relatives</h1>
			<p>Day 00455: Saturday, 2016 June 04</p>
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	I&apos;m giving up trying to get Ext4 <abbr title="Secure Digital">SD</abbr> cards to work in my broken mobile for now.
	I&apos;ve formatted one of the <abbr title="Secure Digital">SD</abbr> cards as stupid <abbr title="File Allocation Table">FAT</abbr>.
	It&apos;s not feasible to make a second copy of my music library and go through the copy to find all the files with names that <abbr title="File Allocation Table">FAT</abbr> is too moronic to allow (such as those with question marks), so I&apos;m just going to have to leave those files off of my mobile for now.
	Once I have time and get Ext4 support working again, I&apos;ll have my full library back.
	It seems that in addition to disallowing the use of certain characters in file names, <abbr title="File Allocation Table">FAT</abbr> also disallows even more characters <strong>*as*</strong> file names.
	I keep the songs that don&apos;t have album name meta data in a directory with a name consisting of only a single space; <abbr title="File Allocation Table">FAT</abbr> doesn&apos;t like that.
	This is idiotic.
	If <abbr title="File Allocation Table">FAT</abbr> can handle spaces <strong>*in*</strong> file names, why can&apos;t it handle a space <strong>*as*</strong> a file name? It looks like I won&apos;t be storing any loose songs on <abbr title="File Allocation Table">FAT</abbr>, only songs from albums.
	I hate <abbr title="File Allocation Table">FAT</abbr>.
	In addition to losing access to all the albumless songs, I&apos;m also losing eleven whole albums and several individual songs from albums.
	I can&apos;t wait to have Ext4 support back.
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	As a side note, if I remove the <abbr title="Secure Digital">SD</abbr> card from the mobile and insert it in my laptop, <a href="apt:pcmanfm">PCManFM</a> has this awesome feature where it&apos;ll halt the file-transfer process each time that it comes across a file name that the file system (in this case <abbr title="File Allocation Table">FAT</abbr>) is too stupid to handle.
	Each time it stops like this, it allows the computer user to choose a new file name! This on-the-fly renaming is perfect for this type of situation.
	I&apos;m loving PCManFM; <a href="apt:thunar">Thunar</a> doesn&apos;t have this capability.
	However, this functionality isn&apos;t available over <abbr title="Media Transfer Protocol">MTP</abbr>.
	Removing the card from the mobile is a pain because of the protective case, so I won&apos;t do that for now.
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	My mother and I participated in a flash mob today, which was more fun that I though that it&apos;d be.
	We stood around in a circle playing a strange game.
	We started with a ball of cellophane with candy wrapped within it periodically.
	One person would rip it apart trying to pull out as many candies as possible while another would repeatedly roll a die until they got a one.
	At that point, they&apos;d pass the die onto the next person and take the ball of cellophane to try pulling candy out of it themselves.
	That went on for a few rounds until the cellophane ball was no more.
	Before parting from the group, everyone was then given a Pathtag representing the event.
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	After that, my mother and I spent most of the day working in my mother&apos;s classroom, then went out looking for yard sales for a little while.
	While we were out, I managed to finish cracking the combination on a lock that I&apos;d found at home: 748.
	No one knew the combination so we were going to get rid of it, but we couldn&apos;t add it to our yard sale because we can&apos;t sell a lock without a combination.
	I started fiddling with it whenever we go out and I remember.
	I just started at 000 and incremented by one each time.
	The fact that I could even do that means that the lock design isn&apos;t very secure though, so even now that we have the combination, I&apos;m not sure we&apos;ll find a use for the lock.
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	It turns out that relatives aren&apos;t coming over.
	Instead, they rented a house in town.
	We met them at a restaurant to eat, but then we stayed at the restaurant for what felt like forever.
	I was exhausted by the time we left and the restaurant workers had closed the restaurant quite a while ago.
	These people (and my mother) can talk for ages!
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	It seems that my mother needs help dealing with students during a field trip, so they&apos;ve recruited me.
	On Tuesday, I&apos;ll be leading a group of four or five first grade students through a tour of some tide pools.
	I&apos;m not sure how I feel about this, but it&apos;ll be a new experience.
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